United Church of Christ Holds Its Twenty Third General Conference
Frederick Maryland May 11 The twenty third General Conference of the United Church of Christ opened with Bishop B B Kepphart presiding Delegates and officers chosen as secretary and assistant secretary amid reports of church strength including 6 06 membership 2 000 Sunday scholars and a publishing house The work abroad in Africa and Japan proceeds with new missions and property acquisitions A retirement announced for Rev Dr W J Shuey aged seventy five and remarks by Rev King from West Africa followed. The centennial exercises visited Peter Kemp Farm near Frederick and plans for the Baltimore gathering and Otterbein Church dedication are outlined.
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Old Reformed Church
Chambersburg
Kepphart
Board of Bishops
Africa
Japan
Porto
Ince
Home Missionary Board
William McKee
Fromuer Missions
Home Missions
W. J. Shuey
Union Biblical Seminary
Dayton
Todey
Shuey
Germantown
Miami
Hott
J. R
King
West Africa
Peter Kemp
Frederick
Stone
Baltimore
Otterbein Church
Castle
Oregon
Keppart
Ansylvania
Ohio
Mills
Iaca
William Karstedt
Kokomo
Ind
Charities Conference Plans Milwaukee Next Year
Washington May 11 The National Conference of Charities and Correction chose Milwaukee for its next convention with the date to be announced likely in June 192. A public session featured a proposal for a national bureau of charities and correction with educational and statistical roles like the Bureau of Education. Dr George F Keene spoke on public policy in the treatment of the insane in the nineteenth century and Dr Alonzo B Rich read on legal requirements for insane commitment. Evans Woollen discussed the Marion County Board of Children's Guardians' role and a related paper touched on the guardians' board duties.
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Washington
National Conference of Charities and Correction
Milwaukee
Bureau of Charities and Correction
Bureau of Education
George F. Keene
State Hospital For the Insane
Providence
R. L
Alonzo B. Richm
United States Vital For the Insane
Evans Woollen
Indianapolis
Tracy
Marion County Board of Fldren
Board of Children's Guardians
Weather forecast for Sunday and Monday
Forecast from Washington May 11 predicts Ohio fair Sunday with cooler in north, Monday fair and warmer with fresh west winds. Indiana Illinois fair Sunday and Monday, warmer in southern areas Sunday, west winds. Cloudy in some areas, overall warm trend with varying conditions and temperatures noted by Wappenhans Local Forecast Official.
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Indiana
Washington
Ohio
Ilinois
Wappenhans
Law history and cautions on guardians board powers
A speaker reviews the law and amendments, noting three cases and applications in Indianapolis. He warns that a board of children's guardians, though well meaning, could be a dangerous instrument if misused. He emphasizes charity must prevail and not separate children from parents unless imminent societal danger exists.
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Indianapolis
Longshoremen Shoot Man In Cleveland Port Clash
In Cleveland on May 11 three longshoremen attacked and shot Frank Lavigne in the eye during a dock unloading strike dispute. Two other workers were hit by bullets as the union backed by aggression while line agents and contractors dispute vessel unloading. One arrest reported. further trouble feared.
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Cleveland, O
Line
Frank Lavigne
Mahoning
la Vigne
Arrest of a Doctor in Conspiracy Case in Philadelphia
Dr. Thomas E. Eldridge was arrested in Philadelphia on May 1 on charges of conspiring to kill his wife. A private detective testified that Eldridge hired him to obtain a letter from his wife and offered morphine or dynamite to threaten or harm her, threatening to blow up the house if necessary.
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Philadelphia
Thomas E. Eldridge
Paul Schroeder
Eldridge
Schroeder
Loree to Be B&O President Strengthening Pennsylvanian Control
Philadelphia May 11 The Evening Telegraph reports L F Loree fourth vice president and west of Pittsburg general manager of the Pennsylvania Company will be named president of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road within days J C Stuart would become general superintendent of the B O lines This would place the B O under firm Pennsylvania Railroad control with Pennsylvania directors already holding four seats The move aims to boost western freight traffic to Baltimore and expand export shipping from foreign markets The report notes the Pennsylvania intends to cement its interests through Loree’s leadership and a strengthened B O link
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Philadelphia
Evening Telegraph
L. F. Loree
Pennsylvania Company
Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
J. C. Stuart
Middle
Northwestern
Baltimore & Ohio
Pennsylvania Railroad
Loree
Pennsylvania
Baltimore
Royal Yachts, Politics, and Court Pension News Across Europe
Dispatches report a Barcelona restoration of order with strikers returning to work and detainees released. Royal Yacht Squadron in London names Marquis of Ormonde commodore and Duke of Leeds vice commodore. Zimmerman offers creditors ten shillings per pound, while Manitoba's appeal over liquor act powers proceeds. Dutch reclaim project costs rise. Norwegian bills grant universal male and taxpaying female suffrage. Marlboroughs back the Fragmrose League. Castellane rests due to possible appendicitis. Victoria era pension news reveals modest royal pensions and Queen Victoria’s civil list strain.
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Barcelona
Royal Yacht Squadron
London
Marquis of Ormonde
Edward
Duke of Leeds
Eugene Zimmerman
Duke of Manchester
British Privy Council
Manitoba
Apeal
Bencaourt
Netherlands
Zuyder Zee
Duke
Duchess of Marlborough
Avenue du Bois de Boulogne
Paris
Victoria
Bamoral Castle
Osborne House
Man shot after mistaken identity at Leeds incident
In Birmingham area a Black man, possibly James Brown, believed to have harmed Della Garrett of Springville, was shot to death by white men at Leeds after alighting a Southern train. Police say the wounded man was struck multiple times after a depot encounter. coroner notes the victim may be the wrong man.
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Birmingham
Ala
James Brown
Della Garrett
Springville
Leeds
Brown
Washington Notes Summary of Treasury actions and other items
The secretary of the treasury bought 5000 short term four percent bonds at 113.6. Treasury balances show available cash 156,488,412 and gold 95,906,275. A mail robbery near Durham Creek led to the arrest of Mail Carrier Walter Willis. The Goldsborough torpedo boat began a Pacific coast trial, then had a minor accident. Bond approvals and commissions were issued for several postmasters in Indiana and Kentucky. The State Department doubts German plans in the Venezuelan coast area. An internal revenue ruling excludes certain coconut oil products from oleomargarine tax. Yellow fever cases in Havana have been cured. one fatal case reported at Vera Cruz. News from Hawaii suggests McKinley may not respond to Hawaiian memorials.
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Hemenway
Tracewell
New York
Henry
Anderson
Europe
Treasury
General Fund
Fastmaster Lane
Aurora
N. C
Durham Creek
Brount’s Creek
Walter Willis
Navy Department
Goldsborough
Pacific
Albert M. Clark
Bagglesville
Daviess County
Indiana
Allen H. Oxley
Spurgeon
Fike County
Samuel T. Atkins
Max
Boone County
Department of State
Internal Revenue
The
Marine Hospital Service
Havana
Cubs
Vera Cruz
Mex
New York Herald
Hawaii
McKinley
Marine happenings recount a fleet of ships and wrecks
The Princess Louisa is stranded on a Nanaimo reef with all passengers rescued worth $100,000. Indiana heads to Annapolis to pick up cadets. Lake Superior is quarantined off Grosse Isle with 700 aboard and smallpox. Northwestern sails toward Hamburg with farm implements. Norwegian steamer Douglas wrecked near Cartagena crew saved. Schleswig wrecked near Port Maria Jamaica. to be broken up and sold. Dorothea training ship leaves League Island for Chicago with fifty Chicago naval reserves. New York Shipbuilding builds four steel liners for Atlantic Transport, 600 ft and 500 ft, 6,000 tons capacity, for delivery in 1912.
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Nanaimo
B. C
Indiana
Hampton Roads
League Island
Annapolis
Lake Superior
Liverpool
Montreal
Grosse Isle
Northwestern
North- Western Steamship Line
Chicago
Hamburg
St. Lawrence
Galoup Rapids
Norweigan
Douglas
Ericcssen
Havana
Cartagena
Rosario Islands
Coombia
Schleswig
Schluter
Port Maria
Jamaica
Atlantic Transit Company
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
London
Maritime arrivals and sailings from multiple ports in May listings
Ship notices report arrivals at New York Havre Liverpool and Yokohama along with outbound sailings to London Rotterdam Hamburg and Liverpool. Vessels named include Vaderland Cymric Lucania China Olympia Trave Etruria and Hera with routes via Boulogne Yokohama and Victoria. Also listed are arrivals at Antwerp Sydney Queenstown Hong Kong and Havre with several departures to New York and Philadelphia.
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New York
la Lorraine
Havre
Campania
Cuffie
Liverpool
St. Louis
Southampton
Hekla
Copenhagen
Manitou
London
Maasdam
Rotterdam
Boulogne
Batavia
Hamburg
Etruria
Trave
Naples
Furnessia
Glasgow
Koenigin Luis
Bremen
Vaderland
Cymric
Lucania
Lancastrian
Boston
Westernland
Philadelphia
Umbria
Yokohama
China
San Francisco
Honolulu
Hong-Kong
Olympia
Hong- Kong
Victoria
L' Aquitaine
Columbia
Montevidean
Montreal
To Be Expected Next What To Eat
A kitchen dialogue reveals a cook refusing to prepare a dish unless a union card is held. The mistress contends she will prepare it herself, prompting the cook to threaten quitting. The exchange centers on enforcing a union policy against non union labor in the Amalgamated Union of Cooks.
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Amalgamated Union of Cooks
Villard Estate Transfer Tax Paid in Westchester
The transfer tax on the late Henry Villard's estate was paid to Westchester County treasurer totaling 3474,19. The federal tax reached 28812 and the county tax rate granted a 5 percent prompt payment discount. The estate was valued at an estimated 129,521.
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New York
Henry Villard
Westchester County
Why America Exports Wealth Without Equal Return
Special to the Indianapolis Journal notes that the United States runs a large balance of trade in exports over imports. It cites four early causes—interest on foreign securities, earnings of foreign capital in U S ventures, foreign freight payments, and travel expenditures by Americans abroad—and adds three newer factors such as cancellation of American debt abroad and sale of foreign securities, with estimates totaling hundreds of millions in play.
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Indianapolis Journal
Washington
United States
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Dadabahal Noaroji
London
India
England
America
Bureau of Statistics
Foreign credits and trade balance shift for US in coming years
The passage argues the United States will become a creditor nation as foreign credits grow and debts abroad are paid down. It predicts reduced interest and freight outflows will lessen the drain on the trade balance, and expects a settlement with specie to occur sooner, altering the surplus dynamics and supporting a reinvigorated US shipping industry.
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United States
Expansion in the South Drives McKinley Speaking Tour
Kansas City Star reports President McKinley’s Southern tour grown bolder on expansion, with Memphis cotton markets, Vicksburg cotton bale arch, and New Orleans allusions. Southern welcome frames expansion as a political shift amid Democratic misgivings.
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Kansas City Star
McKinley
South
Memphis
Vicksburg
Jackson
New Orleans
Louisiana Purchase
Missouri Politician Stone and the Silver Issue
The passage notes William J. Stone of Missouri shaping the silver issue during 1906, his role in national politics and the Philippine context. It reflects a Springfield convention stance for silver subordination and expansion, suggesting Missouri could have influenced the national Democratic stance if fully aligned, though Bryan’s stance remained uncertain.
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Isthmian Canal
William J. Stone
Missouri
Percy
Springfield
Bryan
Royal King Edward's continental carriage returns from Calais trial
Royal coach for King Edward features two bedrooms two dressing rooms a central salon and two attendant compartments. Built in teak with wood carving plush leather and embroidered silk ceilings heated by water and powered by two heating methods. Fitted with electric lighting double glazing and standard gauge compatibility for continental railways.
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London
Chicago
Edward
Stone
Compagnie Generale Jv Construction
St. Denis
Track Elevation Boosts Suburban Travel Near Chicago
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that elevated tracks have brought all suburban towns within forty miles of Chicago closer to the city. Trains now travel from start to finish at nearly a mile per minute, with routes improving travel times and access.
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Chicago
Iago
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